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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
A good question to ask is why did Hollywood, as a centralized thing, ever exist in the first place? Cameras and equipment was expensive and not terribly mobile. Having a few studios and lots with the cameras and lights and rigs and so on
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
The root of this thread literally uses it in the way I observed. So...never? It's literally right there! I see similar uses everywhere (speaking specifically of the general public, not financial industry professionals), calling eve
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
It isn't a complaint. It's an ad. This is literally an ad for some sort of "get cited by AI" service.
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
Among the generally misinformed public, which I was clearly referring to, yes, it absolutely has. Everything is money laundering. Do you think I was literally saying the financial definition has changed?
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
Money laundering has become a default catch all term for "monetary misuse / suboptimal allocation". At least among the general public. I worked in AML tech for a bank earlier in my career. I put up a fight against this misuse
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
The elephant in the room is how many people in this discussion are actually alien lifeforms. The elephant in the room is how many turtles obtained law degrees. The elephant in the room is whether this is worth discussing because we're
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
That is a stat you invented out of thin air, based upon nothing but pejorative hope, against all logic or rational consideration of the timeline or the scale of the project, and you declare it the "elephant in the room"? HN is so
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
Uh, sure... Earlier you said- "But cars from foreign manufacturers "made" in Mexico or Canada can be exported to the U.S. per NAFTA, like everyone's doing now" Which cars are those? Can you tell us? Give us one . I
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
You can't assemble a bunch of imported parts and say it's a NAFTA car. 75% of the content of the vehicle has to come from North America. There are other limits on the minimum labour cost and steel/aluminum content. So no, the
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by llm_nerd 2mo ago
"Mostly to put up a token resistance to Trump's advances on their sovereignty" Canada originally imposed the 100% tariff against Chinese EVs in lockstep with the US to protect North American automakers. In return China reta
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
On the geopolitics, the American domiciled firms are completely in bed with the US military and US government, and have made it absolutely clear that they are committed to the domination of the US government. So when you say "geopoliti
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
I...don't follow. How in the world does your comment about open weight and open source relate? Ignoring that it has nothing to do with this post (did you mean to reply to someone), are you aware that Anthropic, OpenAI and others allow
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
I was pleasantly surprised by this release and the tone at the very beginning, but quickly it is painfully obvious that it's blatantly requesting a ban on open-weight models. The absurd demand for some safety arbiter by World Police
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
I imagine it's just technical issues on the flip. It's also going to be interesting what happens to HF with loads of people downloading a many TB model. Even though almost no one has the capability to run it, it does seem like som
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
It is literally the Haber-Bosch process, without question. The school actually calls it that in their own paper, https://cbsi-asabe.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Harvesting... , because that is what it i
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
>This is kind of my point. It's a shit point, then. And absolutely no one said they were "equivalent", and again you're doing the rhetorical "it isn't perfect and absolutely comprehensive for every possible
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
This sort of rhetoric appears for every benchmark, and somehow it always rises to the top. A few days ago there was a Geekbench 7 submission on here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025812 ), and again the top com
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
"You honestly seem more obsessed with Trump than the history here" Indeed, why would I focus on the guy who started this very war under discussion and multiple other wars over the past year, has openly threatened nuclear attacks
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
Almost no one finds "alignment" with the IRGC. Instead this is a conflict where all sides are garbage. It's a conflict where we hope that everyone loses. On the one side you have a terrorism-sponsoring theocracy that wants to
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
And it's worth considering that obfuscation only ever worked against casuals for whom tedious was a bridge too far. Nation state actors and criminal hacker groups, on the other hand, consider the tedious entirely worth it.
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
I mean, utter bullshit. If you "need SIMD" you know exactly the programming pattern to guarantee SIMD from the compiler. And the single and only people who "need SIMD" know these rules. It is only the hobbyist "SIMD
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
The AI overreaction is people extrapolating change forward in a linear fashion, not unlike the nightly news scarily reporting about some "trend" sweeping the nation (rainbow parties, polygamy, whatever), playing on people's f
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
It's a clever title because it's FREE MONEY on HN. There is a small but rabid group that upvotes everything that denigrates AI, sight unseen.
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. HN has a fetish for SIMD, but if you are hand-rolling SIMD and you aren't writing an explicit acceleration library, you're doing it wrong. Like, 100% of the time. Every modern langua
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
EUV was "invented" (demonstrated) in Japan first, though those US labs did a lot of work on the overall lithography system and reflective optics to put it into practice. The US DOE along with the manufacturers made a consortium (E
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
> The actual EUV light source is developed and produced in California by Cymer, which ASML acquired in 2013. Cymer was one of multiple vendors (Gigaphoton, XTREME) providing this sort of light source, and ASML acquired it because it cou
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
> No they didn't. Yes, they did. Like, look around . Clearly the Western world foolishly and very short-sightedly allowed the US the reigns on far too many things, to its disadvantage. It is unwinding, but it turns out that having
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
>I don't know why you're trying to downplay it. Ignoring that I have literally zero trust in anything Anthropic has to say on this -- they have been doing the hysterical routine and trying to get every bit of government granted
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
Models don't have some self identity, beyond what is explicitly handed to them via a system prompt. There have been many, many cases of models identifying as different models by different makers as a basic identity hallucination. They
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by llm_nerd 3mo ago
The distillation explanation is classic American exceptionalism: No one could possibly do anything unless they were copying American leaders (where "American" means a bunch of Chinese, Canadian, Europeans and Indians working in th

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